Values, Diversity, and Cognitive Development

Poverty and early childhood parenting: Toward a framework for intervention.

“…Early parenting strategies designed to pre pare children to cope and compete in inner city environments characterized by grossly inadequate resources, chronic violence, and pervasive distrust may not be consistent with those strategies promoted in the larger so ciety. In such environments interpersonal and cognitive behavior valued by the larger society may be perceived to be dysfunc tional (Raven, 1987). Comer (1989) cited as a case in point the inner-city child who comes home and complains about being beaten by other children and is told that if he or she does not fight back there will be another beating at home.…”